Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

Art Nouveau sepulchre (the Paulheim tomb by Richárd Füredi) in Kerepesi Cemetery

in Táborhegyi út was established, while the inactive ones remained in existence until the 1930s. The crucifix of the Újlak Cemetery stands in Kecske utca to this day. Their successor was shorter lived v/ith the various denominations burying their respective dead in separate sections only until 1913. The earliest Jewish cemetery, from the early 13th century, is likely to have been in the vicinity of Laktanya utca. The last burial here took place around 1870, and the facility was closed down in the 1920s. The one following this in time was the Páluölgyi Cemetery to the right of Szépvölgyi út, which was closed down together with the Táborhegy graveyard.

Pest had several larger burial grounds in the 18th century. One stretched from the southern part of today’s Erzsébet tér to Vörösmarty tér, while another lay somewhere around the junction of what are now Török Pál utca and Lónyai utca. There were cemeteries around the Belváros (Inner City) Church and by Ferenciek tere, somewhere around the site of today’s inner city Central Post Office and the former monastery of the Misericorde order where now the City Hall stands. Outside the city walls, between today’s Deák tér and Kossuth Lajos utca, was the burial ground reserved for war veterans. The Greeks and Serbs had their own cemetery at today’s Csarnok tér. On the oth7